

Kyle admits as much, saying that he had realized it was the only way to keep Will interested in the sport. Will interrupts the match, claiming that Kyle has used an illegal move, and realizes that Kyle had only been able to beat him in his youth by cheating.

They continue to argue during the match, with Will venting his bitterness over the death of his mother. Kyle makes several attempts to reconcile but is rebuffed by Will the tension between the two finally boils over, and they agree to a match of Anbo-jyutsu, a form of martial arts in which the two had sparred while Will was growing up. Riker's decision is complicated by the fact that the civilian adviser Starfleet has sent to brief him on his mission turns out to be his father, Kyle Riker ( Mitchell Ryan), with whom he has an antagonistic relationship. Picard advises Riker that while the Enterprise is a prestigious assignment, it cannot replace the experience of having one's own command, and gives him 12 hours-the duration of their stop at the starbase-to decide. While the Enterprise, under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, is en route to Starbase Montgomery to run diagnostics on its engines, Picard receives a message from Starfleet offering First Officer Commander William Riker a command of his own, the Aries, which is on a potentially dangerous exploration mission in a distant sector. Wesley Crusher, La Forge and Data attempt to determine why Worf seems more agitated than usual, and discover that he is upset over not participating in a key Klingon ritual. In this episode, Riker must decide whether to accept command of his own starship, and negative feelings surface when his estranged father arrives to brief him on the mission.
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Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of the Federation starship Enterprise-D. It is the 40th episode overall, first broadcast on April 24, 1989. " The Icarus Factor" is the fourteenth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Star Trek: The Next Generation (season 2) John Tesh – Holographic Klingon (Uncredited).
